Before tonight, I classed myself as a Neil Gaiman agnostic. The English author, whose stories are being adapted by OldSoundRoom in their newest production, October in the Chair and Other Fragile Things, always struck me as simply competent. I found i …Read more

Before The Shining, Poltergeist, and “Children of the Corn”, there was The Turn of the Screw. Henry James’s 1898 novella drove home a truth that parents or caretakers know all too well: children can be really, really scary. In James’s time ghost stor …Read more

The weird tales of H.P. Lovecraft have assumed new life at the Kraine Theatre in RadioTheatre’s sixth festival devoted to the author’s work. The week-long event, presented as part of the FRIGID Festival, casts the reclusive Rhode Island writer as a k …Read more

Playing through September, the Red Poppy Ladies’ Mulan the Musical serves up a unique blend of storytelling, dance, kunqu-style movement and, of course, a whole lot of drumming. The show from the Beijing-based female percussion group tells the tradit …Read more

At the midpoint of “Family Play”, the latest in the line of CollaborationTown’s hive-minded theatrical creations, two teens flip tarot cards. The first is for the past, the second for the present, and the third and final for the future.  This triptyc …Read more

If you shoved “Rosemary’s Baby”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, and “Fatal Attraction” into an atom smasher, the result might come out looking something like Erin Mallon’s new play, “Branched”, now playing at the HERE Arts Center.  New Age yuppies Tamara …Read more